by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Sep 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
A dense mist hung in the air when we left the Four-Mile Beach Inn Thursday morning (9-1-16) and headed south down the Cabot Trail along the northeast coast of the Cape Breton Highlands National Park. At breakfast a couple from Halifax told us about a great hike...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Sep 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
Sunrise (8-31-16) at Pictou Lodge was everything we could have hoped for and then some. Getting up to admire the fiery ball also gave us an early start.
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Sep 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
Tuesday (8-30-16) would be our longest driving day of many lengthy legs during this trip. From Cape St. Mary’s to Pictou Harbour we’d cover 268 miles. Of course we had lots of cool stops to make along the way.
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Sep 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
It was overcast and chilly when we left Halifax and headed west down the South Shore region of Nova Scotia. Karen loves sunsets and I’d reserved a perfect perch atop ferocious cliffs on the Acadian Shores. We had many miles to travel and I held hope for clearing...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Sep 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
About an hour northwest of Halifax is Nova Scotia’s wine country. The Acadians used dykes and a drainage network to reclaim this coastal area with the highest tides in the world and create extremely rich farmland. The Grand Pre′ landscape and culture is a Unesco...
